Drama Collection (page 3)

Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic and writer
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Date: circa 1960s

Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwright
Fay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s

J B Priestley, British author, playwright and broadcaster
J B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984), British author, playwright and broadcaster. Date: circa 1970s

Helene Weigel, German actress with Berliner Ensemble
Helene Weigel (1900-1971), German actress, second wife of the playwright Bertolt Brecht. She joined the Communist Party in 1930

Brendan Behan, Irish writer and republican
Brendan Behan (Brendan Francis Behan, 1923-1964), Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and IRA volunteer

Jacquetta Hawkes, Bertrand Russell and Stephen King-Hall
Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996), British writer and archaeologist, Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician

Graham Greene, English writer, in old age
Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene, 1904-1991), English author, playwright and literary critic, best known for his novels focusing around Roman Catholicism and morality: Brighton Rock

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

Pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry Date: 16th century

Theatre of Epidauros, Athens

Theatre of Dionysos, Athens

William Terriss and W L Abingdon in The Fatal Card
William Terriss as Gerald Austen and W L Abingdon as James Dixon, in The Fatal Card Date: 1890s

Seymour Hicks as Jonathan Wild in Little Jack Sheppard Date: 1890s

Es Willard as Cyrus Blenkarn in The Middleman Date: 1890s

Winifred Fraser as Hedvig in The Wild Duck by Ibsen Date: 1890s

I ll Tell You What, Georgian lady remonstrating with man Date: early 19th century

Noel Coward, playwright, composer, director, performer
Noel Coward, English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, in a bowtie. Date: 1950

c. 1880s Japan - Japanese actor in ornate robes

A Run of Luck, the great sporting drama, Boston Theatre, USA, with real horses and hounds. Showing a race scene. Date: late 19th century

The World, Boston Theatre Company, USA - Tableau II, a dramatic scene from The Infernal Machine. Date: late 19th century

Sarah Bernhardt in The Lady of the Camelias, Victoria Hall. Date: circa 1900s

Beerbohm Tree and His Majestys Theatre Company in Business is Business, The Man Who Was, and Colonel Newcome, Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. Date: 1900s

Margaret Parker, Farewell Entertainment, Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell, SE London, 18 December 1907, prior to departure to Australia

The Christian by Hall Caine, Wentworth Crokes Company - a bouquet of roses addressed to Glory Quayle. For the transfer to the Shaftesbury Theatre on 12 December 1907. Date: 1907

The Young Idea by Noel Coward, Savoy Theatre, London, a Robert Courtneidge production. Date: circa 1923

The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle from his own short story. First produced at the Adelphi Theatre, 4 June 1910, this production at the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Beerbohm Tree in Resurrection by Tolstoy
Beerbohm Tree as Prince Dmitry Nehludof in Resurrection by Tolstoy, a production at His Majestys Theatre, London Date: 1903

Ian Robertson as The Stranger in The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Grand Theatre, Southampton Date: circa 1909

A Country Girl in London by Frank Price, an entirely new and original drama of modern English life in town and country (original title: A Woman of Shame). Date: 1900s

Felix Gets a Month, a whimsical farce by Tom Gallon and Leon M Lion, at the Theatre Royal, Bradford, direct from the Haymarket Theatre, London Date: circa 1917

Madame Sans-Gene by Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau. First produced Theatre du Vaudeville, Paris, 27th October 1893.Henry Irving starred in J

Two dancers: Virginia Marvin - left - and Barbara
Two dancers in 1927: Virginia Marvin (left) had been with Mikhail Mordkin as solo dancer and in the Eastern tour company of the Shubert Operetta My Maryland

The Royal Surrey Theatre
The Surrey Theatre, London began life in 1782 as the Royal Circus and Equestrian Philharmonic Academy, one of the many circuses that provided entertainment of both horsemanship and drama (hippodrama)

The cast of The Rose and the Ring starring five of the children of Lord and Lady Ennismore, including Richard Hare. Date: 1922

Interior of the Odeon of Pericles in Athens
Interior of the Odeon of Athens or Odeon of Pericles in Athens, Greece. Interna costruzione dell Odeo di Pericle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Alessandro Sanquirico

Roman burial chamber of Lucius Arruntius and family
Burial chamber of Roman senator Lucius Arruntius the Younger. and family. It contains sarcophagi, marble cinerary urns, funeral altars, skulls, bones, etc

Mr Thomas Sheridan in the character of Oedipus in John Drydens Oedipus, Covent Garden Theatre, 1755. Irish actor, educator, and proponent of the elocution movement 1719-1788

Miracle Play taking place in the street in York
Miracle Play (or Mystery Play) taking place in the street in York. 1884

The Redskins at the London Hippodrome
Scene from The Redskins at the London Hippodrome in which Thundercloud is tied up by the homesteaders. Date: 1905

Votes for Women at the Court Theatre 1907
Votes for Women, the first suffragette play, which was staged at the Court Theatre (now the Royal Court) in 1907. The Sketch comments this is the finest crowd scene they have seen at the theatre in

The Typhoon at the London Hippodrome by Matania
The Typhoon, the latest water spectacle at the London Hippodrome, where a storm was created in the theatres state-of-the-art water tank

Siberia at the London Hippodrome
Siberia, the water spectacle at the London Hippodrome showing the final scene in the last act with Mr Henglers wonderful plunging horses. Date: 1900

Cartoon portrait, E L Blanchard, English writer
Cartoon portrait, Pantomime - Edward Litt Laman Blanchard (1820-1889), English writer, dramatist and drama critic, best known for his Drury Lane pantomimes. 1880s

Cartoon, A candidate for the new acting academy - The Church is no longer the only Profession open to the Fool of the Family. 1880s

Programme cover, Princes Theatre, Bristol, October 1949 - Our true intent is all for your delight. 1949

Kate Rorke (1866-1945). English actress and drama teacher. Date: circa 1912

Clubland caricatures: Garrick Club celebrities
Caricatures of some of the associates of the Garrick Club including; Sir Squire Bancroft, one of the trustees Lord Burnham, Gerall du Maurier, Seymour Hicks, Sir John Hare and Sir Arthur Pinero

I claim my perjured lover, Nanki Poo - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

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